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This is a blog about my ham radio experiences including vintage homebrew, QRP operating and the National Radio company.

Saturday, February 29, 2020

A Dingey size Boat Anchor

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I first started on this project over 15 years ago. I wanted a 6L6 based transmitter with a spotting function . Over the years it has gone ...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

A Dingey size Boat Anchor on 30 mtrs

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After putting my Drake 2B on 30 mtrs I immediately started looking for a matching transmitter.  The trouble is, the WARC bands like 30 mtrs...
Sunday, February 23, 2020

Putting the Drake 2B on 30 and 17 meters

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Recently I noticed the optional crystal frequency chart in my Drake 2B manual. It shows that a 14.0 MHz crystal allows you to listen to WWV ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Christmas Vertical

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Each year around Thanksgiving through about New Years I give up my 40 mtr vertical. That vertical makes a great support for our Deck Chri...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

AWA Bruce Kelley 1929 CW Party - 2019

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Another BK is in the log. This year I worked ten other '29 stations. K0SM/W2ICE was worked outside of the party hours so Andy does not s...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Winter Operating Events

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The first of this winter's Classic/Boat Anchor Radio operating events is on the  horizon, only a few weeks away. I've been working o...
Friday, September 20, 2019

FB7 / Parallel 46s Station On the Air

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This week I finally finished up my early 30s CW station using a National FB7 and a homebrew 1934 transmitter . To-Dos that have been sl...
Saturday, August 24, 2019

Drake 2-NT Transmitter

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Last week I traded some of my 1930s heavy metal for a Drake 2-NT novice transmitter. At this point I'm interested in a decent rig I c...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Push Pull 45s

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In the November 1955 issue of QST I found this accolade to the Push-Pull TNT transmitter: A Pair of 45s in Push-Pull The words of Keit...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

A fix for drift?

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Does anyone else have a slow drift problem with their Hull Hartley? I was looking at mine and spotted something I wanted to check into. ...
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About Me

Niel - W0VLZ
I was licensed as WN6ULH in 1966. My first shortwave receiver was a WWII vintage variant of a National NC100A. As a novice I used a military surplus BC-342 reciever and an Eico 720 transmitter. Then, when I left for college, I took a National NCX 200 transceiver mounted under the dashboard of my 1965 Mustang. My stations since then since then have included a Drake TR4cw transceiver and a Drake B line. Today my shack includes equipment dating from the early 30s through current gear operating CW, SSB and PSK31. I've built many pieces of my own gear including tube and solid state transmitters and receivers. My current interests include QRP operating, vintage home brew and the National Radio Company. Read more about these topics on my web site at https://web.archive.org/web/20220604005204/https://www.prismnet.com/~nielw/wa5vlz.htm or emaill me at nwiegand0129@gmail.com.
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